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The grass was slippery with blood, the air thick with the smell of cordite and the stench of death…..it was the key stronghold of the Italian front, a living hell…. Monte Cassino.
The exhausted shell-shocked survivors of SS Assault Regiment Wotan held out against the combined forces of the Allied armies. First came the Americans, then the fearless Sikhs and finally the British infantry in a merciless assault on Peak 555 towering above the Italian town of Cassino.
But although the battle was lost, the SS code forbade them to surrender. For the troops of SS Assault Regiment Wotan defeat could not even be contemplated. At any cost. It was Major Kuno von Dodenburg’s job to get what was left of the battalion out alive. But first he had to find and destroy the traitor in their midst….
Leo Kessler is the pseudonym of prolific WW2 author and historian Charles Whiting. Whiting uses his deep knowledge of the Second World War as the basis of the Kessler novels. Over three million Whiting books have been sold worldwide. If you've enjoyed Sven Hassel or Eric Meyer, sample some tongue-in-cheek war action courtesy of Leo Kessler.
Genre: Thriller
The exhausted shell-shocked survivors of SS Assault Regiment Wotan held out against the combined forces of the Allied armies. First came the Americans, then the fearless Sikhs and finally the British infantry in a merciless assault on Peak 555 towering above the Italian town of Cassino.
But although the battle was lost, the SS code forbade them to surrender. For the troops of SS Assault Regiment Wotan defeat could not even be contemplated. At any cost. It was Major Kuno von Dodenburg’s job to get what was left of the battalion out alive. But first he had to find and destroy the traitor in their midst….
Leo Kessler is the pseudonym of prolific WW2 author and historian Charles Whiting. Whiting uses his deep knowledge of the Second World War as the basis of the Kessler novels. Over three million Whiting books have been sold worldwide. If you've enjoyed Sven Hassel or Eric Meyer, sample some tongue-in-cheek war action courtesy of Leo Kessler.
Genre: Thriller
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